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spent his first day at Sol y Luna feeding Daniel his lunch, cleaning him up and making sure he could rest comfortably. He continued providing this one-on-one care in the days and weeks to follow, but soon Sol y Luna’s director Marian Joanna Hijlkema had other plans for Williams. After his second or third trip to Mexico to volunteer Hijlkema finally asked him about his background. “Up to that point I just said that I was a Norte who liked to spend time in Merida and wanted to volunteer,” Williams

February 24, 2012 Career Expo coming to campus By Katie Scaff ’13 Networking and making connections with employers early is key, according to senior business major Nikki Noble. Noble went to the Fall Internship and Job Fair in October with a few resumes in hand and came away with an offer to intern with Target this summer. PLU is hosting a Career Expo this spring from noon to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 7,  in the University Center’s Chris Knutzen Hall. (Photo by John Froschauer) “It was just

June 28, 2012 Zylstra to lead PLU’s Center for Community Engagement and Service By Barbara Clements The way Joel Zylstra ’05 sees it, PLU’s mission is all about reaching out, getting involved and making a difference of individuals in the nearby Tacoma and Parkland community. It is obvious that it is his mission as well. One he embraces with gusto. “The community really is a classroom for the students,” Zylstra said. “And the campus is an invaluable resource for the community.” Joel Zylstra

after graduation. “We love making art together, so to end up in the same place, working on the same show, was unbelievable and heartwarming,” Helland said. “It’s a gift.” The original production started rehearsing in November 2011 and premiered in January. The remount of Balagan’s production of Spring Awakening opened on April 20th and closed this summer. Huertas was also cast as Feste in the Seattle Shakespeare Company/Wooden O’s production of Twelfth Night, a role which he also played at PLU under

. Rowland has received various acknowledgments for his work, including making the San Francisco Chronicle bestseller list for his first novel. As a member of Choir of the West at PLU, Rowland was given the opportunity to travel and see new areas of the United States that he was never able to experience before. “I got to see a lot of America that I hadn’t seen before,” Rowland said. “It was nice to get introduced to the fact that there is a lot to offer in the United States.” Since graduating from PLU

March 4, 2013 Louis Hobson ’00 talks with theater and voice students at a workshop in January. (Photo by John Froschauer) What’s Next After Normal? Louis Hobson ’00 talks about life after working in Pulitzer-winning play By Barbara Clements, University Communications So now what? After going to the Big Apple and making it big – as in a key part on a Broadway, Tony-winning, Pulitzer Prize winning play big – what’s next? Louis Hobson ’00 gets asked that question a lot these days. And his answer

-reviewed journal designed to give undergraduates an opportunity to present math research. More About the Paper Read “Dominance over ℵ” in Vol. 14, Issue 2, 2013, of the Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal here. Tyler Ball and Daniel Juda both graduated with math degrees in Spring 2013, but their paper, Dominance over ℵ, was prepared earlier—making it eligible for the journal. The two worked with faculty sponsor/PLU Math Professor Tom Edgar over the summer of 2012 to research and construct the

, an independent online news site devoted to covering aid, development, global health, poverty and the humanitarian community, purposefully combats our urge to simply skip over humanitarian journalism. Instead, says founder Tom Paulson ’80, it is “geared toward making people really care about poverty.” “When I was in college, we didn’t even know this stuff was going on,” Paulson says. In his quest to keep humanitarian stories interesting, evermore relevant and impossible to skip over, Paulson says

, Chicago, Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Rasmus’ girlfriend and partner in food activism, Heather Hoffman, will be making the ride with him. Family and friends will keep him company along the way as he treks his way through 12 states. His father plans to join in in the last leg into Washington, D.C. To follow Rasmus’ ride, check out his blog, or his Twitter or Facebook page. Read Previous Marissa Meyer ’04: Living the Dream as a Best-Selling Author Read Next The Career Whisperer COMMENTS*Note: All comments

— while at the same time we’re making the pieces our own,” said Cece Robinson ‘20, a senior performing in the show. When thinking about how she wanted the show to come to life on PLU’s campus, Cunningham reflected upon the university’s first all-black production, “Fences,” directed by recent graduate Josh Wallace ‘19.  “I saw how it affected the students that were in the performance … the opportunity to bond and really feel proud about a work that had cultural relevance to them, that they could